Thread 519734421

Show me your book collection.

>>519734421 (OP)
Nice salt lamp deadbeat

>>519734496
The light burnt out I had to order another on Amazon. I know they are gay but my mom gave me them like 15 years ago and I still retain them. I like em tho it’s a nice soft glow when u turn em on but they also shed salt all the time it’s annoying

>>519734421 (OP)
Just need the one, brother.

>2025
>reading some arhaic paper things
Just how poor are you?

>>519734421 (OP)
>"Jew Toot" by Paranormal Nigger Geek
>"69 French Fry" by Pepsi President Mr. Gonecock
>"Tickle Secret" by Shhhhit
Based

Thought I needed these for my PhD, went in a different direction

>>519735841
I got u bro

>>519736279
My brother in Christ, may God bestow upon you blessings untold! Spread the word: CHRIST IS KING!

>thread full of display books with pristine spines that have never been read
figures

>>519734421 (OP)
No

>>519736501
I’ve read everything I own bro. I keep my shit nice.

do I need anything else?

>>519734421 (OP)
I used to read a ton when I was a kid until highschool. So if I did show you my dusty ass collection it would be a bunch of goosebumps, Isaac Asimov, and college text books

>>519734421 (OP)
>Ford
Based
>Watchmen
Mehhh...
You should get some K-Mac.
>>519736227
Explain topological conductivity/insulation to me.
Can conductive/insulative elements compounds give the opposite effect with the right topology or is it just a matter of increasing or decreasing the original quality.

>>519734421 (OP)
Where's the classic lit you fucking pleb

>>519737053
I like it that’s a solid collection

>>519737192
I have some. Not a lot.

>>519734421 (OP)

Only a few

>>519734421 (OP)
What do you need books for after you read them?

>>519737413
Re-read them

>>519737053
Absolutely amazing. I should read Don Quixote but it's so long.

The jew fears the reader

>>519737786
Very nice, jealous of the Crowley and the Jung.

>>519737413
What a dumb question. I collect them and I read them and I keep them and I build my library. What if the power goes out and along with that the internet. Suddenly can’t look things up I’ll bet. I can though.

>>519737413
I am currently sitting at home, in the middle of a storm. The winds are projected to get up to 50-60 mph tonight. It's not a matter of if but when the power will go out, and how many days it will be out. What I have for days like that is my kerosene lanter, lots of firewood, and a book shelf filled with things to read.

>>519738177
Precisely. I wish you the best of luck my man I hope ure power don’t go out

>>519737047
Goosebumps is cool dude. I used to read that shit when I was a kid too. It’s
great. M24kt

>>519738415
I goofed I been drinkin

my dad's collection, I found after he passed

>>519734421 (OP)
Good thread, so I’ll contribute to keep it going.

>>519734421 (OP)
1/2

>>519738905
2/2

>>519738937
>All that CS Lewis, but no copy of Mere Christianity
Reddit tier if I am being honest with you.

>>519737413
>What do you need books for after you read them?
Take notes, compile useful information, then distill it into the most powerful aphorisms, with the goal of understanding reality and the human condition.

>>519738711
patrician-tier collection anon

>>519738002
>>519738177
That's a line from Seinfeld, by the way... I understand that reason for keeping books lol

>>519739204
I vaguely remember that now that from the show you mention it. Well played.

I don't collect any books because I don't see myself reading the same book ever again. I always give them away when I finish.
I also buy a lot of used books because why not?

Currently I am reading The Karamazov Brothers, and it's great. Everyone has a well-written story. The attention to detail is incredible. His characters are deep and not deliberately entangled to keep some unnecessary continuity. It really feels real.

>>519737141
In basic terms a topological insulator is a material which is insulating in the bulk but conducting along the edge. It was a few years ago that I looked into it and I always tune out during talks on it so I may be wrong / missing out on a lot, but it's something like charge carriers with spin up are only allowed in one direction while spin down charge carriers are allowed in the other direction. The topological nature of it is seen in the band structure, where there is a band crossing in one direction.

>>519739072
I only have the Chronicles of Narnia, I've never read his religious writings. At some point I intend to. The white paperbacks are my old copies from when I was a kid, the big paperback is an omnibus edition I bought a few years ago so I could reread them because the paperbacks are in somewhat delicate shape.

>>519734421 (OP)
I'm going through Paul Washer's Biblical Foundations series now, so I don't really have time to read anything else.

>>519739308
>P*terson
>>519738937
Very nice

>>519738765
Noice chief helmet I had that same one. I think it was halo 2 but I don’t know where it is now.

>>519739308
>Hanukkah pillow
>Peterstein book
Checks out. I just found a book that’s been missing for months.

>>519734421 (OP)

Took the .epub pill

>>519734421 (OP)
Nice try FBI

I have no shelf space to waste on paper, so it's all PDFs.

>>519739737
Bro ure moms fbi

>>519739735
I have a Kindle Gen 3 (yeah, I am that old), and I gave up on reading there when I started to have so much more money than time.
I also find out that having fewer options forces you to read the whole thing. I lost count of how many books I started and dropped a few chapters in because I could just download whateverelse.

Also, books nowadays are ridiculously cheap, like, half a meal tier of cheap. You can even get them for even less if you don't mind buying used and finding long female hair in between the pages.

>>519739308
some spiritual classics, but they all look unread
there's a seeker born every minute

>>519739204
Sorry I don't watch televison. I don't get the reference.

>>519739438
>The Karamazov Brothers
I'll never understand the point of these novels besides giving a historical perspective, but frankly, I don't care about what random people did 150 years ago. It's not interesting and always a long-winded soap opera (because otherwise it's even less interesting, writing about some peasant farming for 20 years). Seems kinda voyeuristic, too. I'd rather read an actual autobiography lmao.

Most of my books are first print. Unadulterated

>>519734421 (OP)
"He's got a levitating rock salt thing," I thought.

>>519734421 (OP)
>Show me your book collection.
Here's some of mine

>>519739476
Chronicles of Narnia is part of his religious writtings. After many drinks with JRR Tolkien he decided to write his own epic fantasy series that was meant to be an allegory on Christianity. Mere Christianity is simply the written adaptation of a series of radio broadcasts he made on the subject of Christendom.

>>519740408
2 of 4

>>519740408
>>519740467
3 of 4

>>519734421 (OP)
i mostly pirate and use kindle
got only a few physical copies

>>519740460
narnia is better than the kjv.

>>519740408
>>Show me your book collection.
>Here's some of mine
yeah, right, Kant Hegel Heidegger hahahahah
I had that exact Hegel text in philosophy class 40 years ago

>>519734421 (OP)
le boomer detected
coopers book LMAO!
looks unread too, thank god for that!
Jim marrs - Boooooooo!
the secret teaching of all ages - Boooooooo!
Impreium - Boooooooo!
Trump and Gramham handcock - booooooo!

>>519740019

i thought about buying a kindle years ago, but then the 7 inch phablet phones came out, so i regretted to buy one, even since the older versions are dirty cheap on amazon, i just went to a old windows phone to read since i like the interface of whindows phone 10

>>519740408
>>519740467
>>519740590
4 of 4.
I also have some others..
"Enders Game" (really good book)
Human Anatomy (Troon pilled)
And some CS and IT books

Currently reading, "Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy" and "LOTR: Two Towers"

>>519740314
Isn’t a print copy of Behold a Pale Horse with that chapter still in it rare? Ive heard it’s been removed from modern copies. I have it in PDF.

>>519734421 (OP)
Here's /pol's book collection:

Muh Jews Done It Volume 1
It Was Dem jews
Dem Jews Too Twicky For Everyone Revised Edition
Oh No No No It Was The Jews Boys
Jewy Jew Jew Done It
It's Always Dem Jews
Muh Jews and Muh Smooth Brain For Dummies
Everything Muh Jews
Muh Jews Done It Again
They's Dones'd It Again Jew Style
How To Make Friends And It Was Dem Jews
Dem Jews
Jewiest Jew That Ever Jewed
Jews Are Too Smart For Me

And all of /pol cheers smooth brain style.

>>519740660
I’m 32 is that a boomer?

>>519740467
Stargate for the win.
>>519740408
the Kybalion - boooooooo!
bill cooper - booooooo!
>>519740242
Under the bannor of heaven for the win.
cooper shite - boooooooooo!

>>519740701
Yes it is. I have the real one.

>>519740625
I haven't read those yet. I'm not ready for the abuse.

>>519734421 (OP)
are you fucking kidding me with this data gathering BS LOL
>FUCKING LuLZ
dont forget the three digits on the back anon

Homeless I use an ereader

"people without books are spineless"
- me, right now

>>519740701
Try to find a stalag edition. I mean you can but it’s hard

what does everyone have the Edgelord book 'revolt against the modern world"? lmao

>>519740785
>Stargate for the win.
Based and gate-pilled. I know Gates are real. It's my favorite show, along with Wheel of 4chan.
>the Kybalion - boooooooo!
>bill cooper - booooooo!
Why don't you like these books? I haven't got to them yet. I haven't read every book in my library.

>>519740774
i had all those boomer books.

Some gud ones.

>>519740765
>OY VEY!

>>519740460
intredasting

>>519734421 (OP)
weird how I can't find martin luther's the jews and their lies on amazon but I see a bunch of books by jews about martin luther and his hatred of jews

>>519740686

also on paper i only have this cunt jeniffer book: Scham: Die politische Kraft eines unterschätzten Gefühls, mostly to learn some german, because the content is shit, i dont take seriouly the politic opinios of women

>>519740701
No it's not rare at all.

>>519734421 (OP)
Damn bro very nice

Most of my collection is electronic, currently reading The Prince.

>>519734421 (OP)
>show me how many thoughts are not your own
Nothing against books, but that looks like you compiled that list to make us proud. I would be prouder if you actually did something, faggot.

Raunch for the lols

>>519734421 (OP)
>Show me your book collection.
this isnt a book forum faggot

>>519740941
I have it in PDF

>>519740610
>i mostly pirate and use kindle
TPB has some pretty amazing epub book collections, I must have 100 GB of epub and pdf I will never read, once a week I search for 'assorted'

>>519735841
i like this one
best book by far

>>519740853
Trumps the King bro. The government doesn’t currently care if you have cool historical books. Give it a rest. Fuckin Cash that jeet is too busy holdin in a big ass fart to be concerned with historical lit anyhow.

No disrespect cash if ure readin this, love ya bro.

>>519739308
Based. I've got the really big one.

i only read section 8.

heh heh heh, bueno. excellente.

>>519740408
Based philosophy enjoyer

Ereqd again

>>519736227
I got my PhD. in something easy. Nobody gives a fuck what your PhD. is in. All they care is that you have one. Only 3 people have ever asked where I got mine in the last 25 years. And nobody calls me doctor. If they did I would tell them that I am no doctor. PhD. can tell you a lot about how autistic a person is: hardcore, card carrying, board certified spergy tard.

no photo because i'm not at home. but a massive number of business, finance, marketing, economics, and personal development books, with a bit of art/architecture/design shite mixed in for fun.

Ereader again

>>519734421 (OP)

All over 3000 books?...I don't think so. Would be over 20 pictures about bookselfs

>>519741298
Not to be a one upper, but mine is big, and also very old.

>>519740349
I like to have a link with the past. To understand how they think, their values and their fears, and what they saw as freedom and slavery (those 2 concepts change drastically from one place to another).
This book is literally just a couple of years after the liberation of the serfs in Russia. It's very intriguing reading about the intellectual atheist point of view on the agrarian society of Russia and, a few pages later, a complete opinion by a god-fearing merchant. I am still on page 200 and something, but I have been enjoying the book.

Also, the oldest book I read was Don Quixote, from the early 17th century. Obviously it's not real, but their sense of humour is really something else. For example, at some point in the book, someone throws a stone in the face of Alonso (Don Quixote) while he was larping as a knight, and he breaks a tooth. And apparently this was HYSTERICAL. I am glad I was not alive at that time...

>>519741035
You see the book titled
>ANTISEMITE MARTIN LUTHER: On Jews and Their Lies
? That is On Jews and Their Lies. Just ignore the annotated seethe at the bottom of each page. If you can't do that just grab a bottle of White Out and fix it yourself.

>>519735887

>poor

Do you have any idea how expensive real books actually are to compared ebooks?

>>519741472
Robert Anton Wilson made a living writing for Playboy, I got to hear him lecture at a new age faire before he died, the illuminati books were inspired by all the crackpot letters he would get from Playboy readers

>>519740888
are you okay?

>>519734421 (OP)
Too many to fit a physical collection anymore.

>>519741928
Yea but what if your hard drive blows out and all the internet blows a dick.

POLITICS RELATED:

Hypothetically, there could be near to no security at (corporate owned) bookstores due to the respectable clientelle.

Meaning it would be easy to take free information from these places, why shouldn't education be free?

If anyone wants to talk literature i'm currently reading about Neuro-Linguistic-Programming (NLP), Nonverbal Communication & World History

I have 2 rooms of shelves and stacks. Pictures would tell people I know I post here but I’m happy to talk books. I’ve actually published 2 myself.

>>519741810
Im allright.
I got Kodi Free TV
Ereader books
Back bone vidya controller with thousands of classic roms.
I got a guranteed bed at a shelter
At least one or two good out of 3 meals a day.
A

>>519741805
I knew Arthur Kretchmer's daughter. He was editor of Playboy for >40 years.

>>519742142
Glad to hear you are not living like an animal.
Drugs or very bad luck?

>>519740966
>what does everyone have the Edgelord book 'revolt against the modern world"? lmao
Western civilization is decadent. Of course there will be a lot of people dissatisfied with the current state of things. Haven't read it yet, but did read "Ride The Tiger" and Evola writes like an asshole. Incomprehensible prose that makes me think he purposely wrote in a confusing manner, to make the reader think he's too smart for them to understand. I was pissed reading "Ride The Tiger", first time that's ever happened and probably won't be the last, considering I have Hegel and Kant.
>>519741364
>Based philosophy enjoyer
You too? What's your favorite philosophy book and why?
It's so much fun to drill as deep as you can into where, and what we are. I love those mind-blowers, tickles my brain.

>>519742110
I dig it

That’s a pic of my cat

>>519741580
Well played. Respect.
But not one to be outdone, have you got Knapp and Hall's old deck to go with it?

>>519741364
>Based philosophy enjoyer
except he never actually read them

>>519742075
I have them backed up on 2 different drives and my tablet.

>>519742280
>>519742204
>>519742163
Cool historical gear bro! Honestly that shit will probably hold out past most modern ARs lol…as long as you have ammo. An I’m assuming the North Korea book on display is a joke I doubt you could possibly like that fella. lol they are funny tho

Just finished Arabians Nights so I'm taking a break with The Stars My Destination.

>>519740696
March of the Titans and Hillbilly Elegy, you win the thread.

Here are some i like

>>519742259
Havana Syndrome.
Family are democrat operatives that rigged j6.

>>519741583
I hate the fact I can't read Don Quixote because I don't speak the language.
>just get translation XD
Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. In Don Quixote's case it's like watching dubbed Monty Python movies.

>>519742611
Very good if you want to know why society collapses.

>>519742611
>Harassment Architecture
kek

>>519742436
Well u dang frog u have to have electricity to run a hard drive. Unless you have a generator or something. You know what I meant u French bastard.

>>519734421 (OP)
I cant post images from this IP for some reason.
Here is some. I have a lot more.
https://pomf2.lain.la/f/59v2n26n.jpg
https://pomf2.lain.la/f/ml876nn.jpg

I have two mushroom field guides. That's all I need.

>>519742731
>Harassment Architecture
it's funny and the anti-beauty essay is quite on point

>>519741167
>Robert E Howard's Compete Conan Collection
nice

>>519742526
>An I’m assuming the North Korea book on display is a joke
The Juche idea is no joke. A country should not depend on others to survive.

>>519742419
To be honest, I’m not even familiar with that book. Have this relic with a failing binding.

>>519742746
I mean Italian. Jesus I’m drunk

>>519742204
Now this is a good book. In contains all the most important knowledge and lessons people seem to have forgotten.

>>519736876
You need all 42 volumes of the Talmud, duh. Do you get a jew discount on the $3000 price tag?

On a serious note, does anyone know where to download a good copy of the Tanakh? English/Hebrew ideally. There are no digital copies of the Misneh Torah, so I'm making my own from chabad.org's online verison. It's a little tricky formatting ltr and rtl text on the same page in an epub file, taking longer than I'd like. (Not a jew, but I need to know their lies and heresies inside and out.)

>>519742787
Based juche appreciator.

>>519734421 (OP)
libgen is down.

>>519742429
>except he never actually read them
I haven't, that's true, not yet, anyway. Those are major projects. I'm working my way up there.
I read two books at a time, so it takes a while to get through one - one book I consider an easy read, like Tolkien's books, and another book I have to really focus on, like Evola's "Ride The Tiger" or Fichte's "The Vocation of Man", otherwise I burn out and don't read with enough focus - my eyes just travel but nothing sticks to my sponge

>>519742779
I read it too honestly.

>>519742913
Uncle Ted's Cabin?

i heard someone once say
>books are glorified blogs
and it scarred me for life that i couldn't refute it

Read Evola, read Solzhenitsyn, read the Bible

>>519742656
I have an integral copy of Faust in Portuguese that I simply can't read. Nothing makes any sense.
Also, Don Quixote is technically 2 books. Don't bother with the second one.

>>519742746
Well the only issue would be a nuclear strike EMP'ing everything, but I think a physical collection wouldn't last that either.

>>519742550
>March of the Titans and Hillbilly Elegy, you win the thread.
Thank you for the kudos. Feels good. Why do you think this way?

>>519742419
>not one to be outdone
Try me.

>>519734421 (OP)
All my books are math, programming and electrical engineering.

>>519742120
>I’ve actually published 2 myself.
Fiction or Non?

>>519742820
>manly p hall
Devolve moar

>>519742611
Moby Dick is my all time favorite

>>519742915
i lost my copy of anti-tech revolution: why and how otherwise it would be in there

>>519739443
That sounds fucking stupid and gay.

>>519736227
And how much did those books cost new?

>>519743187
>Moby Dick is my all time favorite
mine too, my dad used to read it to me and my sister when it was bedtime. started off with the super short illustrated one and then move up to the full version when I was about 8 or 9. i miss when my parents were together.

>>519734421 (OP)
>that pic
your idea of being a man must be a mish mash of silliness.

>>519742978
>Uncle Ted's Cabin?
Yessir. "Industrial Society and its Future" is my favorite book. I've read it a few times, cover to cover of course. I don't think Ted actually did those bombings, he was too smart for that.

>>519743050
March of the Titans has always meant a lot to me, it was a part of forming some of my worldview though I want to make clear I don't buy all of Kemp's positions, still it is a monumental triumph of a work.

Hillbilly Elegy is topical, Vance is an interesting guy, he is quite a bit younger than Trump and is more acquainted with the online right.

>>519743144
>Devolve moar
Please explain what you mean?

>>519743029
I understand your suffering, but you can still gleam the core ideas from Faust, since it's quite blunt at times. The metaphysical aspects. Reading about Faust's hunt for cunny and the consequences, while written in the best German, is not the crucial part.

>>519739438
>I don't collect any books because I don't see myself reading the same book ever again.
I collect books because a new 20tb hard drive is only $450, and I can build a library for my grandkids, their kids, and so on. No one's ever going to release a high definition version of these books, the ones I get now are perfect and will stay that way. They won't be loaded down with DRM like they will be in the future. We can make copies for everyone to take with them if they move across the country.

Been working my way through Wikipedia's list of philosophy books, taking forever, but the 100s were a little threadbare. Going to do Roman literature next, found a few "the 600 best" type lists for those. Grabbing all the batshit ones you people are posting too, but some of the titles are hard to make out from your potato quality pictures. "The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America" looks awesome... (also grabbed the superconductivity titles).

>>519737413
You're supposed to sell them for top dollar years down the road. They are an investment.

>>519743293
Im sorry bro, hold on to those memories because before you know it that's all you have left

>>519743322
Explain.

Btw you should all read this sadly obscure book. It's among the top 20, or at least 50 or so, of classic literature.

>>519741435
No one calls you doctor because you're ugly and you don't lecture. I am a doctor.

>>519743245
>That sounds fucking stupid and gay.
It's how your phone will work in 20 years.
>And how much did those books cost new?
About $90 AUD each

>>519743187
great book. I regret not having read the integral book (I got a pocket version and assume the book was just small).
I thought it was one of those "children's books" about living in the sea or some shit. Turns out it was a book about obsession and how it cost Ahab everything. I wonder how much I lost reading the small version.

>>519743600
Its never too late to read the original

>>519743409
im in my mid 30s now so i know this all too well. hopefully we get to fight for a better future at some point.

>>519743334
>March of the Titans has always meant a lot to me, it was a part of forming some of my worldview
Same!
>I don't buy all of Kemp's positions
What in particular?
>Hillbilly Elegy is topical, Vance is an interesting guy, he is quite a bit younger than Trump and is more acquainted with the online right.
Yeah, it's funny, I got that book from an ex-gf, and when it came out in the news he was going to be vice president, I remember thinking "J.D. Vance... Where do I know that name?" lol - still haven't read it yet, I have a list of books I want to read and that isn't anywhere near the top... I also have the movie, but it looks hammy... Have you read the book or seen the movie? Maybe I'll move it up in priority..

>>519743688
yeah, I will wait my memory to fade a little and get the original (probably in English).

>>519734421 (OP)
:)

>>519744268
Reminds me of a scene in the film "The Giver"
Is there a hidden meaning here? What is with this "Calvin and Hobbes" ?

>>519744268
For me, it was Donald the Duck.

>>519740019
>You can even get them for even less if you don't mind buying used and finding long female hair in between the pages.
or boogers and blood
i'll never buy used books again

>>519744631
>boogers and blood
>i'll never buy used books again
LMAO
Public School too, eh?

>>519735841
>NIV

>>519744258
reading literature makes you better in whatever language you read it in. it's a cool way to develop skills and vocabulary.

>>519744631
The worst book I got was one that had been perfumed by the seller. I had to leave in the bathroom because the smell was REALLY strong.
The second worst was a book that had been submerged for sure (did not smell like mould or piss). If I recall, the book was "an essay about blindness" from Saramago (probably the wrong title because he is Portuguese). Boring book, that lacks imagination. Plus, I am certain that the author is a cuckold.

But yeah, pages with blood must be really interesting.

>>519744631
depends on the books, used books that are historic literature have rarely been touched by filthy and or female hands

>>519737786
Tool and deftones are the best, especially when high on edibles

>>519742271
Agreed. Personally I love Kierkegaard, and my favourite book is probably Sickness unto Death. I really feel he was the only truly honest "existentialist" together (arguably) with Cioran. You either have something anchoring you to meaning, or you don't. You can't make it up on your own. I do enjoy Heidegger too, and I find his view about the Dasein compelling, but ultimately I still find issues with it. What about you, what's your favourite?

>>519744243
>What in particular?
Well like when he talks about
>Nordic-Led Desert Empire—Ancient Egypt
for example, that's a bit much for me but most of what he wrote is spot on. I especially appreciates how he characterizes history as racial conflicts like the Hun invasion of Europe or the Ottoman invasion of Europe etc. Made me see history differently.

I am in the same boat as you on Hillbilly Elegy, haven't read it yet but thought the movie was decent for what it was. It was a window into the world of working class whites that the powerful in the USA have seemingly abandoned after shipping many of their jobs abroad.

>>519745147
>Tool and deftones are the best
Niggawat. You have some research to do on the history of hard rock and metal.
I suggest Led Zeppelin as a starting point (no, I'm not a boomer).

>>519734421 (OP)
Data mining threas

>>519734421 (OP)
i can't even read

>>519740888
Checked and same.
But i have a home.
This is what i am reading rn.

>>519745917
You can learn man, don't give up.

i'd need to take like 12 pictures

>>519740888
Get a job, hippie!

>>519745848
Everything even tangentially reliant on Cunt is shit.
I had to read Stirner (lol) before I could fully comprehend Nietzsche's late work.
Basically as you are already saying: you can't read about or learn this shit. You have to make up your mind yourself, meaning the end result is wholesale rejection of prior philosophy. They were all wrong. Nietzsche wasn't right either, but he came closest to revealing the essence.

>>519742915
I got memed into reading it by /pol/.
At least im glad its short.
Not my style. Dont waste your time is my recomendation.

>>519744793
>Public School too, eh?
all in those, but i started my collection buying from Goodwill, and they're in garbage condition, tho a few are ok..also can't stand moldy smells
>>519745038
>The worst book I got was one that had been perfumed by the seller.
i got one of those too...absolutely rancid
>>519745038
>The second worst was a book that had been submerged
got one of those also
Sterling Hayden's Voyage..not as good as his Wanderer, both tales about the seas, with latter being a pretty great autobiography and well written, interesting style
>>519745137
true...it's hit or miss, but i generally hate the smells

i just took a pic of some of my books, but doubtful i'll post
my collection is different than most as i generally stay away from philosophy - i mostly like American writers from the 1900's to about 1960 or so....the last books i bought is Shelby Foote's Civil War trilogy

>>519746326
my favorite is Wittgenstein moving from super technical to natural language philosophy where he says everyone is just arguing about definitions. it totally destroys all modern rhetoric.

>>519745038
That commie Saramago got a nobel prize for it.
Its only our second one i think.
Em PT: Ensaio sobre a cegueira.
In highschool we have to read: Memorial do Convento.

>>519746555
>i generally hate the smells
old book smell is best smell, up there with leather, roses, and the first coffee of the day

>>519743483
I looked up this book, and the descriptions of it seem similar to books like 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. Have you read any of these books?

>>519745848
>Personally I love Kierkegaard, and my favourite book is probably Sickness unto Death.
I checked out some Kierkegaard, first on Youtube, I love his line "The meaning of life is to give your life meaning". So I bought his book "Either/Or", haven't read it yet, but it's on the list. I'll look into "Sickness unto Death", an interesting title.
>I really feel he was the only truly honest
Good, I live in a world of lies - honesty is a breath of fresh air
>You either have something anchoring you to meaning, or you don't.
Based
>You can't make it up on your own.
Meaning? I don't understand what you mean here.
>I do enjoy Heidegger too, and I find his view about the Dasein compelling, but ultimately I still find issues with it.
Dasein.. The Being? The thing that is? Maybe I've misinterpreted.. What are you issues with this idea?
>What about you, what's your favourite?
My favorite philosophy book, other than "Industrial Society and its Future", if you'd even consider that technically philosophy...is Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations"... That was the book that first blew my mind.. I had never read anything like that before.. I went to public school so it was Anne Frank and other "White Man Bad" - colonial slop, so a book like that, made a big impression on me - have you read it?

>>519746725
Yes, that's a perfect example.

>>519746887
Of course, but We created those books.

Any Borges enjoyers itt?

>>519746723
>American writers from the 1900's to about 1960
1800's to 1960 i meant
>>519746805
eh, it depends...moldy and perfumed crap is disgusting

>>519746994
>We created those books
Interesting, I didn’t think to look at the publishing year for We until your comment. I think you’ve sparked my interest enough to get a copy.

>>519734421 (OP)

No American Stasi.

This guy is not going to make it....

>>519734421 (OP)
this one is about the dirty fucking jeets.
Pretty relevant if you ask me

>>519748433
>>519734421 (OP)
alternate cover art

>>519735841
>>519736403
trolling or idiot?
Trolling is my bet

>>519737411
Lovely covers, nice collection.

>>519748522
Have you “200 Years Together”? I haven’t read the book in your pic, but I know I should. I assume by this post you’re anti-Christianity?

>>519734421 (OP)
here's mine
not as impressive as OP's
but good enough

>>519746899
>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
No, sadly I haven't read any of the Stoics, it's something I have been wanting to do for a long time. It's something that would do me good since I tend to stand on the "opposite" side and be too taken with romantic and decadent ideals.
>Meaning? I don't understand what you mean here
Yeah, I find that when you look into most of the modern philosophers grappling with meaning, be that Sartre with his focus on choice and freedom, Nietzsche with creation, or even Camus who claims meaning is not there and so you should live absurdly, there is this elevation of the human will to the highest seat, it turns into the only real thing and ultimate factor, which I simply can't accept. I agree with Kierkegaard that meaning exists if you have an absolute above you, and if you don't, all that's left is despair (and at most you can find some beauty in the recognition of that, which is what I enjoy about Cioran).
>Dasein.. The Being? The thing that is? Maybe I've misinterpreted.. What are you issues with this idea?
Not just the Being, but specifically the Being that can question itself, that can reflect on its own existence.
What makes it compelling is his idea that the mere fact of finding ourselves here, our "throwness", supposedly makes meaning one with being, the being-in-the-world is the meaning, and our modern craving to "find" meaning is more something like a sickness, which in some ways makes perfect sense when you see how ancient societies, even highly sophisticated ones like Greece and Rome, did not have our same existential doubts and took life for what it is.
I find that framework consistent, but I still can't bring myself to fully accept it. It feels almost evasive of the question. If anything I find Fernando Pessoa's simpler depiction in his poetry closer to that ideal: "I am glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I read".
But even then it's still an idea that cannibalizes itself as you write it.

>>519748811
>Have you
*Have you read

>>519735841
>NIV
If you insist on only having one bible, make it the NSRVue translation.

>>519748811
>anti-Christianity
It's all a scam to me
hindu muslim christian or fucking kikes whatever
I've read Gulag Archipelago, but haven't read that one yet.
Downloaded the audiobook, but that's for distribution. I'm gonna read it in russian
Speaking of audiobooks
https://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/Massive/AudioBooks/Ford-The_Intl_Jew-Intro-Ch1.mp3
https://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/Massive/
highly recommend this archive

>>519748811
>>519749026
E Michael Jones got really buttmad about Linder reading his book (with commentary) on tape
Couldn't do anything about it though.
You'd think EMJ would support an ally against the kikes...
https://youtu.be/Urw7PLad_KY

>>519749224
Thank you for your recommendations. I highly recommend 200 Years Together, it is very relevant to our modern times, and world. I challenge you to find God, and a moral ethos to follow. I find in studying religions, and first hand accounts of history that there is nothing new under the sun. Religion is easily corrupted, but its writings are our forefathers grappling with evils we are still facing today.

>>519744883
kek, it even comes with gay cover
https://youtu.be/UED_-2Yoykw?si=SnDD3Af5VZISUTVq

>>519749008
>No, sadly I haven't read any of the Stoics
Oh man, Italy... This is your bag... "Meditations", and if you want some contemporary application, then Ryan Holiday's books, I've read "Ego Is The Enemy" and "Stillness Is The Key", and "Let Them" by Mel Robbins, I read that too, which is an even more broad brush.... I dig it...Organized nicely and easy to read, not so much deciphering, like with other kinds of philosophical books.
>I tend to stand on the "opposite" side
Can you tell me about that?
>the human will to the highest seat, it turns into the only real thing and ultimate factor, which I simply can't accept
Why?
>Cioran
Never heard of 'em.. I'm interested and will take a look..
>Not just the Being, but specifically the Being that can question itself, that can reflect on its own existence.
I wonder, whether or not, all Beings possess the capability to reflect on its own Beingness?
>and our modern craving to "find" meaning is more something like a sickness,
Woah, that's a wild idea.. Interesting..
>Greece and Rome, did not have our same existential doubts and took life for what it is
Hmm.. Yet, they're home to some of the greatest wonderers?
>"I am glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I read".
That's a really interesting line... Does he mean that he's glad he can experience reality, rather than a second-hand account of it? Like Plato's shadows on the wall? I'm not entirely sure what that line means..

>>519734421 (OP)
Seeing this thread made me realize I spent really too much time reading. I have more books than any of you and I've read them all, some even multiple times, many I've read for university.
What the fuck, am I an idiot or is the level here this low?
Maybe both?

>>519750296
>am I an idiot or is the level here this low?
Undarken me

>>519750690
I wonder how the citizens reacted when Alexander proclaimed he wanted to meet Diogenes.
He had just razed Thebes to the ground, killed most men and sold the rest into slavery because they dared to rebel. And the guy wanted to talk to the guy who masturbates in public and barks at people.

>>519750296
>brags about how many books he has and has read
>am I an idiot
Maybe both, but in all seriousness you should probably reflect on the totality of your life. Not just how superior you are to your underlings here on this humble khazarian cow milk farmers forum.

>>519734421 (OP)
Calvin and Hobbes book is probably the only one with any real value

>>519750952
>I wonder how the citizens reacted when Alexander proclaimed he wanted to meet Diogenes.
Probably as we do - with wonder
>the guy wanted to talk to the guy who masturbates in public and barks at people.
Maybe that's what this place is... A meeting between people like Diogenes and people like Alexander. The commoners have been figured out, but commoners that reject commonality? Maybe that's as much a mystery to Rulers as Rulers are to the commoners that reject commonality?

>>519750690
>>519751016
I was trolling. I did read a lot more than many and I have a huge library but because I did 3 years of history and philosophy + 2 years of history + rich father who would buy me infinite books.
Then I found myself in a weird situation where I felt like I was not enough and I would study random shit to compensate hence even more books. Thankfully at a certain point I kinda learned English and now I only read pirated pdf.
Terrible stuff, would not recommend and it's not an humblebrag.
I do think that if you read too much you have a mental issue.

>>519744469
I have that book if you refer to my initial picture

>>519751751
I kneel

>>519751690
If I were a commoner, I would be shitting myself with the news that Alexander and his army were coming to my city. And if I were there when Alexander demanded to be taken to Diogenes, I would just accept I was already dead and hope they did not get too creative when he loses his patience and decides to genocide the whole city.

>>519751902
>I would study random shit
I don't believe in "random"
>I felt like I was not enough
That's a problem
>I do think that if you read too much you have a mental issue.
Is wonder, illness? I think not. I think wonder is a sign of a healthy mind.

I spend too much time on /pol/ when I could be reading.

As an oldfag, I pledged to quit and lasted a few weeks until that Audrey Hale shooting happened (2023...) and the memes roped me back in, and I've been here ever since.

I'm done, so long, farewell.

>>519751751
You got me. I actually thought the Holy Quran by Tate was real until I saw the infamous "wash your penis".

>>519752275
If Diogenes was less interesting, he would have already been dead. Alexander came to see the one that lives

>>519737411
those books can't be good can they?

>>519752653
"get the fuck out of my sun" is not exactly the best way to start a conversation with Alexander.

BTW, I love how back then anyone who conquered a city with over 5000 people claimed the title of "emperor of the know world", like, lmao

>>519734421 (OP)
won't post but it's most likely about 6-10+ shelves like those here >>519741167 if i had to guess, it's 95% academic. most of them were given to me by previous generations of professors plus the usual stuff (things you get for free by publishers): books I wrote myself or was involved in, published works of my students etc. etc. there are probably another 2-3 shelves in my parents house which contain my childhood reedings...

for the flex: i've got two entire shelves (100-200+ books, maybe) on ancient philosophy - the stuff /pol/ likes to circlejerk about - mostly untranslated greek and latin :) and yes, i can read those...

>>519752819
But ure gay

>>519752819
How many books did you write or co-author?

>>519735841
I love the Hoey Bihqe

>>519738711
Best crotch novel ever was The Perverted Triangle by H R Kaye 60s vintage kink

>>519752945
traditional books? not much: about 5 or so. but there's a large number of my 60-100+ pages teaching-manuscripts that seem to go around - it's actually quite funny to see them pop-up in places i've never expected :)

>>519734421 (OP)
Check out Wakefield press for the best literature translations in print today. Or Dedalus books UK. They both basically only really publish works that have largely gone untranslated or have never been translated in English from the fin-de-siecle (fancy talk for turn of the 20th century Europe)

>>519741435
In Goymany a PhD, MD, JD whatever entitles you to having "Dr." in your legal name. Gets added to your documents, drivers licence, id etc.
You kinda get a name added to your name and you can actually INSIST that people use it.

>>519750296
how many books have you read
even if you read only 20 books a year for 10 years that's already more than 99% of us will read in a lifetime
we simply do not read, there is no use for it anymore, and our times are all about usefulness
for example our grandfathers used to read poetry to woo girls
imagine how ludicrous that behaviour would be in this day and age

>>519753323
I would post more but my camera pics are too large files and it's hard to know which are ok and which aren't. That and my books take up several book shelves although only one full bookshelf and a few stacks for my adult collection (if you don't have a kid book collection it's unlikely you have a large adult book collection, funny how that happens)

>>519740828
I understand Trout Mask Replica. Dachau Blues!
jwray

>>519752794
>"get the fuck out of my sun"
Heh... Diogenes meant: give me light - or colloquially, "enlighten me"
Wouldn't you ask the same, of a Ruler? Question is, how could you be sure it wasn't another form of control? There's rulers on each side of the herd: Rulers of the collective, and rulers of the Self.
>anyone who conquered a city with over 5000 people claimed the title of "emperor of the know world", like, lmao
Maybe the head of the snake was smaller back then

book: I recommend this 100 y.o. tome which is selling better than ever

>>519753323
>>519753468
guy who reads fiction because it makes him feel deep and cultured / 10.
there is precisely one reason to read fiction, and that's to impress rich hoes with english degrees.

>>519753531
The best /pol/ book I've ever read I don't own physically which is sad.
>Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun

Written in the 70s by one of the most respected cultural critics and academics of the time this book perfectly describes how Academia was ruined by infiltration from lesser men and mostly women. It spells out the origins of wokeism before woke was ever a word and it proves that Academia has been in serious need of reform for going on 60 years at a minimum.
The fact that academics refuse to openly state the entire thing is a ponzi-scheme racket at this point just proves they're all in on it.

Look at this they squirm whenever you mention the Replication Crisis or even something as cut and dry as the Clovis First debacle in anthropology. They will NEVER admit anything is wrong. They're all scammers and the ones who aren't are excommunicated like Sabine Hoffsteder just was by an academic org she was in.

>>519734421 (OP)
Cool.

>>519753658
Lol, well this aged poorly in less than 2 min
>>519753794

........ I have half a bookshelf of Academic textbooks you absolute retard. My favorite book by one of my favorite authors, Angel of the West Window by Gustav Meyrink would have made zero sense without reading the entirety of "Christian Occultism in the Elizabethan Age by Frances Yates" AND "The Oxford Very Short Introduction to the Kabbalah" (from the wonderful VSI series by Oxford)
Typical autist retard that doesn't understand that literature are treatises on the human condition , parable, like Plato you dipshit. So funny when midwits try to act like they know shit about people and life when they only read non-fiction.

>>519754144
>>519753794
This one is retarded too.
Rich people took over universities in the 1920s with private philanthropy.
Complaining about wokeism or whatever just fundamentally misses the point.

>>519736227
Neat

>>519754266
Damn dude you really can't read can you? The fact you said that in reply to a comment about how academia was ruined and eventually led to wokeism
>"complaining about wokeism or whatever fundamentally misses the point"
shows there is a massive gulf between you and understanding a damn thing about what's going on.

Wokeism is an evolution of an ideology that began in the 50s. "Wokeism or whatever". Wtf do you mean whatever? Do you seriously believe wokeism started 10 or 15 years ago?

The author of that book, Jacques Barzun is the son of two highly respected academics, he spent his childhood watching people like Albert Camus filter into his home regularly for parties and discussions before his family moved to America where he was groomed to become the next great literary/cultural critic. He is quite literally the most expert opinion on the subject of the downfall of Academia you could possibly hope to find yet you dismiss him.

Be honest, how much did your mom drink when pregnant? One google would have showed you how retarded your comment was

And yes, it did start with rich people in the 20s, that's all discussed in the book lmao

>>519754637
>wokeism
>50’s
>Weimar Germany
>Frankfurt School
>trannys
>jews

>>519754637
>Albert Camus
the best thing about the works of Albert Camus is they're a blaring red siren for being in the presence of a pretentious faggot.
For some reason you're exclusively interested in the less-important of the two sentences in my post.
Let me reiterate for you the more important one:
>>519754266
>Rich people took over universities in the 1920s with private philanthropy.
Jacques Barzun was part of that tradition.
The fact that he apparently received accolades from both George W. Bush and Barack Obama tells me that he's absolutely not worth taking seriously.

This book is so chill. Oh I almost forgot to mention the publisher Snuggly Books. They're really good too and publish almost exclusively 1870s - 1920s Decadent and adjacent books like this one.
Really rich people living lavishly and facing spooky happenings. Jean Lorrain is an author I'd recommend from that period along with this book.

And the other thing? These indie publishers actually have good prices. I always cringe when I see people bragging about getting some random classic in a retarded new edition for $50 when they could have gotten 3 or 4 amazing and beautiful looking books from these sorts of publishers at $10-$15 a pop for quality paperbacks. I got a massive Hardback book (Scared Conspiracy of the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille and friends) and it was only like $28. One of the biggest and most luxurious books ever and it cost less than a normie fuck will spend on one $50 copy of The Return of the King that they will never open in their life.

>>519754879
Exactly OP, you know what's up. And in "Use And Abuse of Art" Barzun explains in great detail from personal experience exactly where that mindset came from, what drives it, who is attracted to it and why, and most importantly - how to criticize and attack it at its core so it will hopefully fucking die.

If Use and Abuse or Art was required reading we wouldn't have these problems anymore

>>519754976
> We should ignore a man criticizing and tearing apart an ideology we hate because he grew up surrounded by that ideology

How do you just keep saying the most retarded thing possible every time you post? It's almost impressive at this point

>>519755349
Why do you keep crowing about your literary prowess but failing to acknowledge the actual point of my argument?
I've already repeated it and highlighted it for you...

Do I need to publish it under a French-sounding pseudonym before you're willing to read it?
>>Rich people took over universities in the 1920s with private philanthropy.

>>519755457
Me nearly 20 min ago in a post you probably failed to finish reading (it's ok, I know I ramble a bit)
>>519754637
>And yes it did start with rich people in the 20s, that's all discussed in the book.
That does not, mean the ideology which is destroying the west today started in the 20s, at least not in most places outside the USSR but by the 50s it has by way of the rich in Academia

Again, all discussed in the book quite extensively

>>519755662
Specifically, they were pushing militarism, at the behest of tycoons who profited greatly off WWI and wanted an excuse to do it again against the wishes of the public.
Wonder if he touches on that.

IMO the worst thing about "wokism" is that it's replaced the anti-war hard left with the "FAGS CAN BE SOLDIERS TOO" soft left.

>>519755234
I’m not OP, and I have no idea what you’re talking about? Beep?

>>519755457
>This guy thinks this mfer isn't a good source for explaining the downfall of Western society

Like nigga, just read the damn synopsis. How the fuck is it this hard to admit you were wrong

>>519755835
>>519755889
Beep?

>>519755964
Boop. I thought you were OP

>>519755835
I'm literally not wrong.
He misses the point by a mile:
>>519755777
Just another useful idiot getting fluffed by the system he protected.

>>519734421 (OP)
again, libgen is down

>>519735841
>Paperback
>Niv bible

Since you want to performatively display your groupthink you should get an actual Bible

>>519737986
working on first prints of the typhonian trilogies

>>519755994
>OP
Good reply, but we have ids here newfag. Maybe try typing something incredibly politically incorrect to show you’re not bound by the rules of modernity?

>>519756361
>>519755835
To continue my point, I hate litfags so god damn much.
They'll gobble up any quote with fancy prose and a bunch of expensive words, and decry the "downfall of western civilization" but never have a negative word to say about the two giant jewish wars that ACTUALLY destroyed Europe, killed off 100 million europeans, and plunged the west into debt for the next 4 generations.

I think they just like faggy uniforms is all.

>>519756557
>>519756603
Niggers

(Interestingly the response works for both posts in different ways)

>>519739308
>Juden Peterstien
oof

>>519756393
Are they all down? It's so sad, fuck this gay internet. I kept trying to bookmark new domains but they all kept getting banned. I kinda tried to download all the books I could but I didn't get all of them possible

>>519756642
I’m would have been moar satisfied with your reply if you attacked the jews, but carry on niggerfaggot. Please lurk moar, but also carry on with your immense faggotry.

>>519756827
Work on reading not having